Patent attributes
In a large network, it can be difficult to pinpoint and track down the causes of rule violations deviating from established policies. Conventional environment monitoring mechanisms do not categorize notifications according to those triggering rule violations, and do not identify related network entities and rules. A rule violation processor allows traversal of notifications according to rule violations, organizing the violation according to severity and recurrence, and identifies related rules and network entities which may be related to the rule violation. The resulting graphical user interface provides efficient, timely traversal and analysis of rule violations across the network to allow quick, efficient identification of the underlying cause or condition of the rule violation.
